C. Bradley Moore

Charles Bradley Moore (born December 7, 1939) is an American chemist and research administrator. His research focused on the application of lasers to understand the behavior and reaction dynamics of energized molecules and energy transfer between molecules. He is currently professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he had a long career as a faculty member actively engaged in research (1963–2000). While at UC Berkeley, Moore also served in several administrative roles, including chair of the department of chemistry (1982–1986), dean of the college of chemistry (1988–1994), and director of the chemical sciences division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1998–2000). He was vice president for research at Ohio State University (2000–2003) and held the same position at Northwestern University (2004–2008). He is also professor emeritus at Northwestern. Moore is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

C. Bradley Moore
Born	Charles Bradley Moore (1939-12-07) December 7, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts
Education	Harvard University (A.B., 1960) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1963)
Known for	Chemical Applications of Lasers, Experimental Dynamics of Excited Molecules
Spouse	Penny Percival Moore
Awards	Coblentz Award, Coblentz Society (1973) Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1986) elected member of the National Academy of Sciences(1986) Ellis R. Lippincott Award, Optical Society of America(1987) Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, American Physical Society(1994)
Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemistry
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ohio State University, Northwestern University
Doctoral advisor	George Pimentel
Notable students	Ramon Alvarez, Associate Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund Klaas Bergmann (postdoctoral student), professor of physics at TUK, winner of the 2020 Davisson-Germer Prize Karen Carleton (postdoctoral student), professor of biology at University of Maryland I-Chia Chen, professor of chemistry, National Tsing-Hua University Roy S. Chuck, chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine John H. Clark, former VP of Seagate, CTO of Finisar, CEO of Iolon. Hai-Lung Dai, professor of chemistry and Vice President for International Affairs at Temple University William H. Green, professor of chemical engineering at MIT Paul Houston (postdoctoral student), professor of chemistry at Cornell University Joe Jasinski (postdoctoral student), Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Fellow of the American Physical Society Andy H. Kung (postdoctoral student), Fellow of the APS and Fellow of the Optical Society of America Warren D. Lawrance, professor and former Executive Dean, Flinders University Stephen Leone, professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, member of the National Academy of Sciences David J. Nesbitt (postdoctoral student), professor of chemistry at University of Colorado at Boulder, Fellow of the Royal Society Peter Remsen Ogilby (postdoctoral student), chair of Physical Chemistry at Aarhus University Hrvoje Petek, professor of physics, astronomy, and chemistry at University of Pittsburgh Will Polik, professor of chemistry at Hope College, Fellow of the AAAS and the ACS Sean Smith (postdoctoral student), professor of applied mathematics at Australian National University, Fellow of the AAAS Roger D. van Zee, Deputy Division Chief of NIST Chemical Sciences Division Elisabeth Wade, Dean of Sonoma State University James C. Weisshaar, professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science James T. Yardley, former Vice-President of Honeywell Edward Yeung, professor of chemistry at Iowa State, winner of ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry Linda Young, Distinguished Fellow of Argonne National Laboratory and professor of physics at the University of Chicago
Website	chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/emeriti/moore

Early life and education

Brad Moore was born in Boston on December 7, 1939, and raised in Pennsylvania. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for high school, and earned his AB at Harvard in 1960. He did his PhD thesis research at UC Berkeley under the supervision of George C. Pimentel, and joined the Berkeley faculty immediately after defending his thesis in 1963.

Notable accomplishments

In the 1960s, Moore was one of the first chemists to take advantage of the newly invented laser, and he later edited a five-volume series "Chemical and Biochemical Applications of Lasers". His group developed a method for isotopic enrichment using laser excitation. In the 1980s, his research group was the first to measure quantum state-resolved unimolecular reaction rates, and to see indications that reaction rates are quantized as suggested by RRKM theory. Attempts to explain his experimental observations motivated theoretical/computational advances, e.g. by his colleague William Hughes Miller and by Stephen Klippenstein. Moore also proposed the roaming radical mechanism to explain unexpected product formation in unimolecular decomposition reactions, and his experiments demonstrated that nuclear spin is conserved through chemical reactions.

Moore's research was well-respected by the physical chemistry community. Two chapters of the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry are devoted to reviewing his research. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A's Nov. 16, 2000 issue was a festschrift published in his honor, and the American Chemical Society held a special symposium in his honor at its National Meeting in August 2020. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Personal life

Brad Moore has been married to Penny Percival Moore, an educator, since 1960. They raised two children, now adults. Brad's father, Charles Walden Moore, worked for a time as a laboratory assistant to Thomas Edison.